It may seem odd that a book promoting the home based entrepreneur advises you to consider working from somewhere other than your home, but there will be times when this will make sense.
Take for example our businesses, which include a general gardening business and cycle hire business.
Our gardening business includes trailers, machinery, vans and all that goes with that. I don’t believe that it would be fair on our neighbors to base this sort of thing either outside our home or in our garden. The other problem we’d face is that there is now so much of it we wouldn’t be able to fit it all in.
Similarly our cycle business includes bikes and accessories with a need for a small workshop area from where we can service and maintain the bikes. We then have a large showroom area where customers can browse a large selection of Dutch bikes, we offer free parking and customer toilets.
But our office is still home based.
The reason for this is that I prefer working from home, and the additional cost of hiring an office on top of workshop/storage space was astronomical. In addition to the costs of hiring office space you also have to pay for water rates, lighting, heating, building insurance, contents insurance, burglar alarms, business rates – which in my mind makes it more sense to be home based.
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